Beijing Borch

Product Description

Beijing on an excellent tourist map from Borch: clear, indexed, laminated & waterproof, with detailed plans of the Forbidden City & other main sights & a road map of the capital’s environs fro day trips out of the city. The main plan at 1:75, 000 covers an area of just beyond the city’s main motorway ring (5th Ring Road), extending north-east to include the international airport. Numerous places of interest are highlighted. A street plan at 1:24, 000 provides an enlargement of the central part of the city within its inner ring (2nd Ring), again highlighting places of interest & various facilities. On both plans metro stations are prominently marked & indicate line numbers. Street names are given in Roman alphabet only, with names of selected places of interest & main avenues also shown in Chinese On the reverse is a map of the city’s environs at 1:1, 200, 000 extending over to the coast & highlighting main places of interest, including the Great Wall. Detailed plans are provided for the main sites: the Forbidden City (1:6, 000), the Summer Palace (1:6, 000), the Fragrant Hills Park (1:13, 000), Badaling (1:18, 000) & Chengde (1:30, 000). All the maps & plans are indexed, with, as appropriate, lists of streets, localities & places of interest. Also included are a list of top 30 sights, administrative maps of the city & the country, & other useful tourist information including climate graphs.